Ruling · Vasanta Pañcamī (Basant Panchami) · 1992

Saturday 8 February

Boundaryin Baoding, under the Rashtriya Panchang method. A threshold is only 2 min 05 s away. Say “contested”.

Decide it for

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The two middays

One ghaṭī is 24 minutes. Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday.

Midday of Saturday 8 February

Taken. The only midday Pañcamī reaches.

madhyāhna begins 12:09  12:57 madhyāhna ends
11:2111:4512:0912:3312:5713:2113:45

48 of 48 minutes covered

Midday of Sunday 9 February

Pañcamī is absent from madhyāhna. Not taken.

madhyāhna begins 12:09  12:57 madhyāhna ends
Pañcamī ends 12:06:32
11:2111:4512:0912:3312:5713:2113:45

0 of 48 minutes covered

Pañcamī presentMadhyāhna, the window the rule readsThe instant the tithi begins or ends

How it was decided

  1. 01

    Aṅga

    Pañcamī runs from 11:04 on Sat 8 Feb to 12:07 on Sun 9 Feb.

    1992-02-08T03:04:24Z → 1992-02-09T04:06:32Z

  2. 02

    Kāla

    Madhyāhna is 1 ghaṭikā either side of midday: 12:09–12:57 on the 8th, 12:09–12:57 on the 9th.

    madhyahna: midday-pm-1-ghatika · sunrise and sunset: upper limb, 31′ + 16′

  3. 03

    Rule

    Pañcamī must be present during madhyāhna. It covers 48 of 48 minutes on the 8th and 0 of 48 on the 9th.

    Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 105

  4. 04

    Tie-break

    Only one midday qualifies. No tie-break is needed.

    priority: unstated → only-day · margin 125 s < 300 s

  5. 05

    Ruling

    Vasanta Pañcamī, Baoding, 1992: Saturday 8 February.

    confidence: boundary (margin)

Say it like this

In Baoding, Vasanta Pañcamī (Basant Panchami) 1992 falls on Saturday 8 February. Pañcamī runs from 11:04 on Sat 8 Feb to 12:07 on Sun 9 Feb and covers all of madhyāhna that midday. It is 2 min 05 s from a threshold: treat the date as contested.

ahargana.org/baoding/festivals/1992/vasanta-panchami · pac-rp@2026.1

Who says what

AuthorityKindDate
Ahargaṇa, pac-rpThis rulingSat 8 Feb
Ahargaṇa, classicalDisc centre, no refractionSat 8 Feb
compat-drikpanchangComparison profileSat 8 Feb
No institution has a recorded ruling for Baoding.

Institutional rulings are recorded with a source address, and are never edited to agree.

The rule, as data

/rules/vasanta-panchami · ruleset 2026.3-draft

Month
Māgha, amānta
Pakṣa · aṅga
Śukla · Pañcamī
Kāla
Madhyāhna
Priority
Unstated
Tie-break
Longer coverage, as a boundary
Reference
CRC 1955, p. 105

“S 5 Sri Pancami (purvaviddha), Sarasvati puja (Bengal), Vasanta pancami, Madana pancami.” Calendar Reform Committee 1955, General Rules for Religious Festivals, p. 105.

The same rule, elsewhere

Twelve places, west to east. Local clock times.

PlacePañcamīMadhyāhna 8thCoveredMadhyāhna 9thCoveredRuled
Los Angeles19:04 → 20:0711:4348 min11:430 min8 Feb
Chicago21:04 → 22:0711:4148 min11:410 min8 Feb
Jersey City22:04 → 23:0711:4748 min11:470 min8 Feb
Port of Spain23:04 → 00:0711:5648 min11:560 min8 Feb
London03:04 → 04:0711:5148 min11:510 min8 Feb
Durban05:04 → 06:0711:4648 min11:460 min8 Feb
Dubai07:04 → 08:0712:0948 min12:090 min8 Feb
Delhi08:34 → 09:3712:1148 min12:110 min8 Feb
Kolkata08:34 → 09:3711:2748 min11:270 min8 Feb
Singapore11:04 → 12:0712:5548 min12:550 min8 Feb
Sydney14:04 → 15:0712:450 min12:4548 min9 Feb
Suva15:04 → 16:0711:560 min11:5648 min9 Feb
Profile · tradition
pac-rp@2026.1 · smarta
Rule
vasanta-panchami@2026.3-draft
Engine · kernel
0.1.0 · de440 7eef…ea74
Boundary margin
300 s

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